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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
MICRO
2008
IEEE
107views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
A distributed processor state management architecture for large-window processors
— Processor architectures with large instruction windows have been proposed to expose more instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and increase performance. Some of the proposed arch...
Isidro Gonzalez, Marco Galluzzi, Alexander V. Veid...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Ginger: control independence using tag rewriting
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
Andrew D. Hilton, Amir Roth
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Simulation sampling with live-points
Current simulation-sampling techniques construct accurate model state for each measurement by continuously warming large microarchitectural structures (e.g., caches and the branch...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Roland E. Wunderlich, Babak Fal...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
LIFT: A Low-Overhead Practical Information Flow Tracking System for Detecting Security Attacks
Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising techniqu...
Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li, Ho-Seop Kim, Yua...